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Volumes of transindividuation: The spaciousness of localities and the urban in Bernard Stiegler
No full textThe role of transindividuation is one of many key elementsin Stiegler’s thought. It concerns how expectations of a future (protentions) are generated and how collective protentions coalesce in a horizon. Transindividuation, as an individual and collective process of becoming, provides the means by which the local begins to enter into the mix of the global rendered as planet and biosphere. Therein resides a number of processes accelerating and perpetuating the various crises bundled together under the rubric of the Anthropocene: a rubric teeming with metonymic shorthands for the various crises facing humanity and its existence on the earth in the first quarter ofthe twenty-first century. In this article, the authors ask what becomes of the urban in light of the acceleration of extant technologies for visualization and calculation—the very organization of locality,its scales and volumes? In raising this question, we argue that spaciousness becomes not only an ontological concern but also an epistemological and biotechnological one straddling material and noetic localities
Refazendo cidades africanas
Get PDFThis article presents the 2004 book For the City Yet to Come: Changing African Life in Four Cities, by AbdouMaliq Simone, who has spent more than twenty years studying African cities as an activist, teacher, researcher and NGO advisor. and local governments. The author shows us the nuances, obscurities and creativity behind the urban life of the various Africas and elaborates a critical analysis of the suffering and injustices of urban life. Simone contests the conventional view of “failed cities”, arguing that the understanding of urban centers in Africa involves knowing the historical origins of each city in particular and, not least, also getting to know the local knowledge, which is strongly imbued in the culture, which are reflected in the “informal” social, economic and political systems that give life and form to cities(Since there isEste artículo presenta el libro de 2004 For the City Yet to Come: Changing African Life in Four Cities, de AbdouMaliq Simone, quien ha pasado más de veinte años estudiando las ciudades africanas como activista, docente, investigador y asesor de ONGs y gobiernos locales. El autor nos muestra los matices, las oscuridades y la creatividad detrás de la vida urbana de las distintas Áfricas y elabora un análisis crítico del sufrimiento y las injusticias de la vida urbana. Simone cuestiona la visión convencional de las “ciudades fallidas”, argumentando que la comprensión de los centros urbanos en África implica conocer los orígenes históricos de cada ciudad en particular y, no menos importante, también conocer el conocimiento local, que está fuertemente imbuido en la cultura, que se reflejan en los sistemas sociales, económicos y políticos “informales” que dan vida y forma a las ciudades (Al no existirEste artigo apresenta o livro de 2004 For the City Yet to Come: Changing African Life in Four Cities, de autoria de AbdouMaliq Simone, que se dedica há mais de vinte anos ao estudo das cidades africanas como ativista, professor, pesquisador e assessor de ONGs e governos locais. O autor mostra-nos as nuances, obscuridades e criatividades por detrás da vida urbana das várias Áfricas e elabora uma análise crítica ao sofrimento e injustiças da vida urbana. Simone contesta a visão convencional de “cidades falhadas”, argumentando que a compreensão dos centros urbanos em África passa por conhecer as origens históricas de cada cidade em particular e, não menos importante, também conhecer de perto os saberes locais, que são fortemente imbuídos na cultura, que se refletem nos sistemas sociais, econômicos e políticos “informais” que dão vida e forma às cidades (Por não haver resumo no texto original, este foi feito pelos editores)
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Dispossessed exposures. Housing and regimes of the visible
No full textLiteratures and organising show us how, in contemporary racial financial capitalism, housing is formed through dispossessive histories and geographies. Here, we query how these enter into play in the visual regimes through which housing is seen and experienced. For if the visual realm is as much a construct as any other housing matter, finding a grammar to tap into its workings might become handy when its violent outcomes come to the fore. What is reproduced in the visual regimes of housing? What is offered and taken anyway? What might never be seen, and by whom? The article offers a tentative analytical approach to questioning what we call dispossessed exposures: the (en)visioning of homely futures that are deprived, already in the social construct of seeing with the house, the possibility of radical care for and of habitation. These ideas are unpacked through reflection on two films: Ladj Ly's Les Miserables and Fanny Liatard and Jeremy Trouihl's Gagarine. We offer these reasonings as a contribution to ongoing conversations in the renewed field of housing justice scholarship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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